Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 25-Apr-97 Re: www.microsoft.com sure .. by Charles W. Swiger_at_andrew
> Furthermore, I've heard that DirectX's 3D component has some inherent
> limitations which only allow a maximum throughput of about 300,000
> polygons per second-- whereas Apple has claimed that a native
> implementation of QD/GX was achieving about 700,000 polygons per second
> on the same hardware.

Whoops-- minor correction: that should be QuickDraw 3D, not QD/GX.

-Chuck

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